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[Michael Vince]

What about just turning on Polling?
I have polling turned out for a router and all I get is gigabit performance.
I have tested it with a wire variety of tests from basic fetch tests 
from a FreeBSD client box via a FreeBSD  router (with polling) to 
another FreeBSD box and all I got was gigabit performance in either 'ab' 
tests (would always gave 114megabytes/sec, or even just doing a 'fetch' 
of a single 1gig file I could get up to around 90 megabytes/sec which is 
largely file system read performance limited over network performance 
limited.

Its the same with my Samba server sure without polling I get quite 
ordinary network performance but when I turn on polling its appears to 
be limited by the gigabit cable quality setup and the switch and quality 
of hardware like using Intel em gigabit ethernet devices.

I agree that networking performance is really important and I do agree 
that FreeBSD out of the box doesn't perform as well as it could in those 
areas but there are some solutions for it that fill the gaps for all the 
situations I have faced, I plan to use them for as long as I need till 
things like interrupt latencies can be over come.

People should enjoy FreeBSD for what it is, something thats not holding 
you back anywhere, there are countless examples.
There is no one trying to design a system to squeeze money out of you, 
their not trying to force you to buy a rpm up2date system.
They aren't holding you down with package choices such as being stuck on 
a old version of apache 2.0.x that just gets 'security' patched and 
never gets a version increment so you miss out of performance 
improvements of a particualy module of the stable Apache 2.0.x series, 
just so they can try and sell you a new version of CD so you can do a 
binary upgrade, the list can go forever.
These systems are designed to control you and at the same time limit 
your possibilities because they 'fear' loosing that control of you, 
FreeBSD has no 'fear' riddled/limiting motivations because it has no 
evil intentions, and just like real freedom look at your choices you 
get. Fear is the path to the darkside.

Alright I am going off topic, what I am trying to say is I think you are 
entiled to say what you like, I have sometimes thought in somewhat 
similar ways, but I also believe you should try and be happy with what 
you get from FreeBSD and if you really want things to move on then one 
of the best things that can be done is either raising funds for 
developers to work on it or providing code your self.

Mike

Danial Thom wrote:

>Also, since you don't see to understand the test,
>bridging is not routing. Its a rote function of
>moving packets from one interface to another with
>very little overhead. Its purely interrupt
>driven, so the kernel's latencies in processing
>interrupts is well exercised. Its a good test
>because, unlike crap like netperf, it doesn't
>involve sockets or any userland tasks. I know
>you're not a real engineer Kris, so I don't
>expect you to understand, but you also aren't
>qualified to discredit the test, since you don't
>know a damn thing about testing.
>
>I know you enjoy being the one-eyed man in the
>land of the blind on this list Kris, But I doubt
>people are stupid enough to buy into your
>continued propaganda. There isn't one credible
>test that shows that FreeBSD MP is worth any
>consideration as a good performer, so it seems
>doubtful that anyone with half a brain thinks it
>is.
>
>Everything today is networking. What good is a
>fast filesystem if it sits on a klunky kernel or
>slow networking system? Who's going to build a
>big honking MP server if is can't handle more
>network traffic than a good UP system?
>
>Do you have a volkwagon engine in your Porche,
>Kris? The problem with Kris is that he thinks
>that if his car has a really cool radio that
>people will buy it, even those its slow as shit.
>That may be fine for the kind of guys that hang
>out on the freebsd-questions list, or for little
>old ladies. But its not "fine" with the kind of
>people that used to rely on FreeBSD for serious
>networking tasks. 
>
>Kris is just a PR front man for a "team" of
>developers that is lost. Their "theory" on how to
>build a better mousetrap for MP is completely
>wrong, and now they're going to try something
>else, using the entire FreeBSD community as
>guinea pigs. First 5.4 was the answer. Then 6.0.
>Now it looks like 6.0 sucks too. Its a damn
>shame.
>
>DT
>